Application of the Eco-Industrial concept to community environmantal management

Key Factors in the Success of Eco-Communities in Taiwan’s Countryside: The Role of Government, Partner, and Community Group

“…Some studies have mentioned that eco-communities involve a training system [8,47,48]; incentives, subsidies, or tax breaks [3,14,29,30,35]; an evaluation system [1,4,14,[31][32][33]41]; praise or reward [3]; an experience exchange platform [5,9,11,39,47,51]; and a counseling and guidance mechanism [3,9,13] as the key government-related factors. Some articles have reported that partnerships (e.g., between schools, mutual benefit organizations [9,44], nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) [8,36,38,43,44], experts or scholars [8,36,44], partner communities [8,9], and representatives [1,40,41]) could play major roles in building a sustainable community. Furthermore, some research results indicate that having a leader [9,36,41,49], a community group [46,…”

“…Some articles have reported that partnerships (e.g., between schools, mutual benefit organizations [9,44], nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) [8,36,38,43,44], experts or scholars [8,36,44], partner communities [8,9], and representatives [1,40,41]) could play major roles in building a sustainable community. Furthermore, some research results indicate that having a leader [9,36,41,49], a community group [46,48], self-consciousness [47,48], an independent finance system [18,49], an eco-education [8,47,48], and an eco-development blueprint [9,32,39,50] is the foundation and guarantee of the successful establishment of an eco-community.…”

“…Ample literature has proposed to mitigate the destruction of the ecological environment caused by industrialization and urbanization using concepts, such as the "sustainable community" [1][2][3][4][5][6][7], "eco-community" [5,[8][9][10][11][12], "low-carbon community" [13], "sustainable city" [2,5,[14][15][16][17], "green city" [14,[17][18][19][20], "low-carbon city" [21], "eco-city" [5,12,15,16,18], and "eco-urbanism" [22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. The eco-city approach advocates balancing the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of development.…”

“…In terms of sustainable development, rural areas have more potential than urban areas [9,35]. In addition to their roles as food suppliers, rural areas are essential to providing resource conservation, diversity of landscapes, and recreational opportunities.…”

“…Numerous existing studies have investigated the various critical roles for building successful eco-communities [2][3][4][5][6][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]18,31,33,35,36,[38][39][40][43][44][45][46][47][48][49], but they lack a systematic investigation and discussion. Therefore, this study explored the key factors of these different roles, which urban areas also have, for promoting the ecology in rural communities and establishing a complete rural eco-community practice and promotion strategy.…”